... However, many people now survive cancer and go on to lead normal lives. But
survivorship is not always easy. Many myths are associated with surviving cancer,
including the expectation that individuals should recover after treatment is over and
also should return quickly to their prediagnosis sense o ...

... disabled, then, is a double marginalization. In addition, people with disabilities tend to be
perceived either as nonsexual (in the case of physical and intellectual disabilities) or as
hypersexual (in the case of psychiatric disabilities). Therefore, media portrayals of disabled
people with healthy ...

... to provide me with medical or psychological evaluation(s) regarding your specific
disability.
You may be referred to an outside agency, such as Vocational Rehabilitation, to
obtain the documentation needed in order to receive our services. Once I make the
referral, you will need to take the necessar ...

... For ever-increasing intimacy and benefit
“Here we are, with all our high notions of ourselves as
intellectual and spiritual beings and the most profound
of knowledge for us is a plain business of skin on skin.
When two members of this godlike, cerebral species
approach the heights of communion betw ...

... Given this uncertainty, it is particularly important
to continue the project of thinking critically and
carefully about the meaning of sex in work which
investigates the sexualization of culture. When we say sex,
what do we mean? Online sexual encounters, such as the one
described at the beginning o ...

... • The belief that sexuality is a fundamentally social, and therefore historical
structure lies at the heart of sexual history.
• It challenges the traditional view that the erotic is a natural phenomenon to
which society has to react.
• Historians have increasingly come to emphasize the ways in whic ...

... ever enjoy sex again. Many of us come to believe common myths such as “I have no
feeling; therefore, my sex life is over!” and “I’m not experiencing pleasure or orgasm
anymore so sex is pointless! Why bother?”
Our sexual-esteem, the positive regard for and confidence in our capability to experience ...

... The questions this research sought to address were: What ideas
about sexuality are presented in Sex and the City and Queer as Folk—that
is, what are the prevailing themes about sex and sexual activity? What
kind of sexual morality is constructed from these ideas and themes?
A method of discourse ana ...

... and transform. We become desirous and decide what to do about it. We choose whom to pursue
and whom to not. We choose ourselves instead of another. We choose more than one other. We
choose to pay for it and get paid for it. We choose to abstain altogether. We all want what we want,
and what we want ...

... Ovulation generally occurs just before menstruation.
After a vasectomy, a man can reach orgasm but does
not ejaculate.
AIDS is the diagnosis for people who have human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
A girl can get pregnant as soon as she starts having
menstrual periods.
King, Human Sexuality Today, 5/ ...

... acknowledgement that sexual expression can provide
emotional and physical benefits, provide some of the key
arguments to why disability activists are campaigning for
the rights of disabled people to express their sexuality in
an equal way to the non-disabled population, (Tepper,
2000; Atwood, 2006). ...

... sexual secrets so closely that they, or their partner, may never share all their sexrelated experiences, desires and dreams together, even in long-term relationships.
Sometimes people hesitate to admit even to themselves that they long for a particular
kind of arousal or pleasure, because it feels s ...

... guiding problem of my study, then, is this: under what conditions did
various statements of sexuality come to claim the status of being
scientifically comprehensible – essentially, the status of being
possible candidates of truth-and-falsehood? Moreover, in the interest
of situating this problem in ...

... young women, as well as the fixation on the negative consequences of
sex, reflect dominant narratives that privilege (but ironically, simultaneously forbid) intercourse as the ultimate accomplishment in a hierarchy of sexual activity. Because the focus is on avoiding intercourse
or practicing it saf ...

... However, shame is not just something that comes as a result of a prudish
upbringing. It goes far deeper than that. ‘The core of shame’, says Nathanson (235), ‘is
the feeling that we are unlovable.’ So shame is triggered by anything which suggests to
us that we are not beautiful, or kind, or generous ...

... tionship between orgasm and the contraction of the smooth
muscles, the physiology of orgastic excitation has remained
unexplained. To my knowledge', there have been no experi­
ments on animals or humans. Various disorders are de­
scribed in the sexological literature, but they are not
considered in ...

... Main Claim: There are certain markers which are indicative of asexuality as well as other
deviant sexualities, suggesting that they are similar in development and impact on the
individual’s life more so than asexuality is similar to a dysfunction.
Subclaim 1: Our highly sexualized culture demonstrat ...

... b. A man prefers to have his partner initiate and be sexually aggressive with him, but he
hesitates to tell her this for fear of her rejecting him.
c. A woman prefers the manual stimulation of her partner to having intercourse, and he
thinks this is highly abnormal.
d. A woman would like to spend so ...

... In regard to symbolic interaction theory, men learn sexual social scripts of seduction
to move their partners into sexual contexts. The scripting of a threesome includes defining
the sexual situation (“this is going to be an exciting sexual adventure”), naming the actors
(“you and I can find someone ...

... Sexual reproduction is both extremely costly and extremely common relative to asexuality, indicating that it must confer profound benefits. This in turn points to major
disadvantages of asexual reproduction, which is usually given as an explanation for why
almost all asexual lineages are apparently ...

... may include any or all three categories and range from short term casual “play”
encounters to fulltime “24/7” roles. BDSM behaviors are so diverse in content and
underlying meaning that a concise, all-encompassing definition is difficult to devise.
Weinberg, Williams and Moser (1984), using the term ...

Sexuality and disability

Sexuality and disability refers to the sexual behaviour and practices of people with a disability (PWD). Physical disabilities such as a spinal cord injury may change the sexual functioning of a person. However, the disabled person may enjoy sex with the help of sex toys and physical aids (such as bed modifications), by finding suitable sex positions, or through the services provided by a qualified sex worker.